Planet Friendly Digital Design

by Chris Adams

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Planet friendly Digital Design Chris Adams @mrchrisadams productscience.co.uk

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2. 30m: Principles of Design for Sustainability 3. 50m: Trying it out yourself, then discussion 1. ~5m: Introduction, and a chance to avoid FOMO

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Who am I? Chris Adams - @mrchrisadams environmentally focussed web generalist

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Who am I? Designer, then Developer, then Sysadmin, then Developer again, then Product Manager, then UX Consultant, then User Researcher. Now (nearly) ALL OF THE ABOVE.

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(Previously relevant) Work A.M.E.E. - Avoid Mass Extinction Engine Loco2 - Low carbon travel

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discover.amee.com

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amee.com

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loco2.com

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Cleanweb London - James Johnston practice pitching Open Utility

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Cleanweb London - what James was seeing

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Cleanweb Berlin - putting ideas to practice

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Cleanweb Berlin - putting ideas to practice

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oreil.ly/sustainability Design for Sustainability

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Why would I care?

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Our activity is changing the planet

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xkcd.com/1732/ Sorry online viewers, you can’t see this video. I just shows me scrolling down the screen narrating as I go. Not much missed TBH.

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worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ Sorry online viewers, you can’t see this video. It just shows me moving the widget around. Give it a go yourself. It’s loads of (terrifying, depressing) fun.

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What can I do? I work on the web. And anyway, the web’s green right?

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No content

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Webs & apps use servers. Servers need electricity. How much electricity?

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Power quote

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Power quote https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/27148401@N06/14783421247/

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Nearly one billion tonnes CO2 and rising (More than Poland, and growing faster) Source: Greenpeace Click Clean Report

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What can we do?

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oreil.ly/sustainability Design for Sustainability

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How we do this for physical products

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How we might do this for digital products — Dr. Pete Markiewicz

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FINDABILITY USABILITY PERFORMANCE GREEN HOSTING

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USABILITY

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Usability Responsive design and mobile ﬁrst Content and display patterns Testing content before publishing Build feedback into user journeys Dark patterns and sustainable choices

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http://patternlab.io/ Sorry online viewers, you can’t see this video, but it is available at patternlab.io

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http://danielmall.com/articles/content-display-patterns/ Sorry online viewers, same again here. It IS available at the link below though.

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https://2016.agilecontentconf.com/

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https://2016.agilecontentconf.com/

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Sustainable choices

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darkpatterns.org

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PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

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Performance Performance budgets Compression Appropriate media for devices Caching CDNs

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https://www.soasta.com/blog/page-bloat-2015-web-performance-monitoring/

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https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/

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http://www.performancebudget.io/

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http://www.performancebudget.io/

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https://speedcurve.com/

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The best, greenest request is one you don’t make

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FINDABILITY

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Findability Content experiments - have a feedback loop Content Audits - keep, kill, or merge Content ﬁrst design - designing with real data User language vs your language - i.e search On-site Search - reveals gaps in content, ux issues

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GREEN HOSTING

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Green hosting Efﬁciency isn’t the same as sustainable Green Web Foundation Finding a host

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http://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

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http://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

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https://www.instagram.com/strangeanimals_/ http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/click-clean/

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aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/

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Stuff you can do tomorrow, for real

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ecograder.com

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sustainableux.com

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oreil.ly/sustainability Design for Sustainability

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You can make beautiful, lightweight green sites

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500k http://2015.dconstruct.org/

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1.2mb https://serving.green/

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@mrchrisadams Thanks! Any questions? Book: oreil.ly/sustainability (50% discount with link above) Websites: sustainablewebdesign.org ecograder.org  sustainableux.com

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Worksheet exercise Now it’s your turn

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Now it’s your turn Take a worksheet Assign roles Start task Regroup in 15mins

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Present back, and time for questions

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Fishbowl 5 seats 4 people sitting, 1 empty chair, always Sit in a chair to ask a question, or say something. You can only leave when someone else sits in an empty chair.